Next week, the Web 2.0 Expo, known throughout the tech industry as one of the premier conferences for the digital economy, will take place in San Francisco. Now in its fifth year, the show bills itself as being “for the builders of the next-generation web: designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, and business strategists.” Affect’s own president [...]
A little over a month ago, Facebook announced that it would be switching up its Facebook fan pages, offering a new layout and extra capabilities for administrators. While not all of the fan pages appear to be using this new format, soon every administrator will. But fret not; this is a great thing for those [...]
by admin on February 9, 2011
Our next installment in the Social Media Week series, comes from Jonathan Mathias, Account Manager at Johnson King. Just how do you create quality content on social media channels? Yesterday afternoon, I went to a very interesting Social Media Week session called ‘Sweet Retweets.’ In it, Sue Keogh and Christine Cawthorne, parted with sage advice [...]
The growth of social media is too large to handle in one city, so all across the world conferences and presenters will discuss the ever-growing presence and trends of the social Web. We also want to learn more about what’s going on across the sea, and, really, what’s more social than a blog swap?
The past decade has witnessed a momentous transformation in the way people interact and exchange information with each other. Content is now co-produced, shared, classified, and rated on the Web by millions of people, while attention has become the ephemeral and valuable resource that everyone seeks to acquire. – Bernardo A. Huberman Last week, I [...]
My client recently attended CES, one of the biggest trade shows of the year and an extremely noisy show from a media standpoint. Although I’ve promoted dozens of clients’ trade show presences, CES is undoubtedly the most challenging technology show of the year in which to make a splash, reminding the most skilled PR practitioner [...]
For anyone traveling over the past week – or hoping to travel – chances are the snow storm interrupted your travel plans even if you were no where near the snow. Our team at Affect had one person stuck in California, one in Florida, one in New Orleans and myself in Canada. (Oh, and one [...]
Last week, I attended a talk with Baratunde Thurston, Digital Director at The Onion (@TheOnion), as part of The Year of Social Media (@UIUCsocialmedia) event series at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. The talk, Foursquare Rallies, Voter Protection, Open Joke Book and Other Awesome Things To Do With Social Media, was witty, fun, and full [...]
It’s December 2nd and the end of 2010 is in sight. This also means that the social media predictions and trends preview for 2011 are starting to roll out. Here is an overview of some great posts that capture the first wave of predictions as well as a review of 2010: Communication and Marketing Trends [...]
We often talk about social media and community engagement, but don’t always separate the two. It is important to understand the distinction between social media and community as well as how they complement one another within a social strategy. Social media tools and technology can help to cultivate a community or provide online locations where [...]